Money-sorting machine.



M. J. WALSH, JR. MONEY SORTING MACHINE.

APPLICATION FILED JAN. 24, 1914.

Patented Sept. 1, 1914.

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M. J. WALSH, JR. MONEY SORTING MACHINE.

APPLICATION FILED JAN. 24, 1914v Patented Sept. 1, 1914.

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THE NORkIS PETERS CO" PHDTU-LITIJQ. WASHINGYON. D. C.

WITNESSES:

MARTIN J'. WALSH, JR., ST. LOUIS, MISSOURI.

MON EY-S ORTIN G MAOHIN E.

Specification of Letters Patent.

Patented Sept. 1, 1914.

Application filed January 24, 1914. Serial No. 814,134.

To all whom it may concern Be it known that I, MARTIN J. WALSH, J12, citizen of the United States, residing at tit. Louis, State of Missouri, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in Money-Sorting Machines, of which the following is a full, clear, and exact description, reference being had to the accompanying drawings, forming a part hereof.

My invention has relation to improvements in money sorting machines; and it consists in the novel features of construction more fully set forth in the specification and pointed out in the claims.

In the drawings, Figure 1 is a top. plan of the machine, with parts broken away; Fig. 2 is a side elevation thereof with parts of the frame or cabinet broken away; Fig. 3 is an end elevation looking to the right in Figs. 1 and 2, the receptacle for mutilated tickets being removed, and the door of the cabinet partly broken away; Fig. 4 is a vertical cross-section on the line 44 of Fig. 1; Fig. 5 is a longitudinal vertical sectional detail on the line 55 of Fig. l; and Fig. 6 is a longitudinal vertical sectional detail on the line 66 of Fig. 1.

The present invention is primarily directed to machines for automatically separating nickels (associated with coins of higher denomination) from dimes and cents (and associated foreign matter),.such a machine being eminently serviceable in sorting the moneys collected as fares by street-car and railroad companies, the money thus sorted being subsequently readily counted by machines operating on coins of specific denominations.

The object here sought is to construct a machine by which large quantities of coin can be handled in a short space of time, thus reducing the labor of separation and subse quent counting; one which may be powerdriven; one which is compact and readily accessible to the operator or operators; one under ready control, and one possessing further and other advantages better apparent from a detailed description of the invention which is as follows Referring to the drawings, C represents a cabinet or frame of any conventional design, and D, D, D, a series of sliding drawers for the sorted coins, the drawers being mounted in any convenient mechanical manner known to the art. Surmounting the cabinet, and extending over the major portion thereof is a plate or table 1 on which the coins are initially deposited, said table belng rovided with perforations 0 distributed tiroughout the surface thereof, said perforations being of a size to intercept lars and dollars, but freely allowing to drop therethrough dimes, pennies (cents), and three-cent pieces. Mounted below the table or plate 1 and traveling lengthwise of the cabinet is an endless belt-conveyer 2, the ends of the conveyer passing over rollers 3, 4, respectively, the roller 3 constituting the driving roller or member. The roller 4 is supported by bearings 5 traversing the frame C, the outer reduced ends of the bearings being screw-threaded and carrying adjusting nuts n by which the slack of the belt may be taken up as well understood in the art. At points intermediate the rollers 8, 4, the laps of the belt are guided by rollers 6, 6, the lower belt-lap being in addition supported against undue sag by the longitudinally disposed strips 7, carried by the bot-tom flanges of the Z-brackets 8, the upnickels (five-cent pieces), quarters, half-dolper flanges of said brackets being secured to the bottoms of the upper side members a of the cabinet, said members a forming the immediate supports for the perforated plate or table 1 (Fig. 4). Between the late 1 and belt 2 are interposed the side le ges or strips 9 having faces m sloping toward the belt so as to guide the coins dropping through the openings 0 at the sides of the plate 1, onto the belt (Fig. 4). The axis of the roller 3 is provided with an extension 10 on one end terminating in a square or poly onal shank 10 for the temporary application thereto of the socket of a crank-handle H, should it be necessary at any time to impart rotation to said roller by hand in the event that the electric or other motor M is out of commission.

The table 1 is bounded by a wall W, said wall extending around practically three sides ofthe four-sided cabinet, and serving in a measure to prevent the coins deposited on the plate or table 1 from rolling off. The belt conveyer 2 travels toward the left (Fig. 1) and discharges the coins resting thereon over a wall on forming the inner boundary of 'a chute 11, the latter flaring outwardly toward the side of the cabinet, said chute being provided with an inclined bottom it sloping toward the discharge sideof the chute, the slope or dip being substantially at right angles to the general direction of travel of the conveyer-belt. The sloping bottom it is provided with a substantially horizontal extension h projecting beyond the side of the cabinet, the said extension being provided with a marginal flange or all 2? having a gap or opening 0 for the discharge of the coins, the latter being received by any conventional make of counting machine R attached to the forked bracket 12. ,A similar counting machine R is attached to the forked bracket 12 at the end of the table 1 farthest from the chute 11. Formed in the extension or platform h at a point adjacent the base of the wall h. are openings 0 through which is free to drop dirt and foreign particles, the same descending into and bein caught in any suit able receptacle or drawer 13. At one end of the series of openings 0 is a chute 1 1 projecting partly above and partly below the member h through which are discarded coins of the penny denomination, the same being caught in the dirt drawer or receptacle 13 immediately beneath said chute.

Covering the chute 11 is a board or panel 15 on which rest receptacles 16, 17, for the deposit of quarters, and half-dollars respectively, the same being maintained against displacement by the hooks or brackets 18, 18, hooking over the edge of the wall The panel 15 overhangs the end of the cabinet, the overhanging or overlapping portion being provided with an opening A for mutilated car tickets which are caught in a detachable receptacle 19, the latter being suspendedby means of tongues 20 sliding on supporting angle-strips 21 (Fig. 6) on the principle of a cabinet drawer, or supported in any other suitable mechanical manner. Under ordinary circumstances, motion is imparted to the conveyer from an electric motor M, mounted beneath or behind the inclined bottom h of the chute 11, and within the confines .of the cabinet C, the motor shaft carrying a worm pinion 22 meshing with a worm-gear 23 on a counter-shaft 2 1, one end of which carries a sprocket pinion 25 from which leads a sprocket-chain 26 to a terminal. sprocket pinion 27 at the adja cent end of the roller 3. The current is supplied from any suitable source of electrical energy through wires a2, a0, a switch 28 being provided where convenient for turning on or cutting off, the power. These features are shown more or less conventionally because well understood in the art. Features shown in the drawings, but not alluded to, are well known and require no description in the present connection. L represents a door by which access may be had to the motor and driving gear, as quite obvious from the drawings.

For our present purpose we may assume that the fares collected comprise a mixture ed. the surface of the plate and toward the disof pennies, dimes, nickels, quarters, and halves (three-cent pieces being no longer in circulation, and silver dollars being usually kept apart from the smaller denominational coin).

The operation of the machine under the circumstances would be about asfollows:- A sack-full of mixed coins is deposited on the bed or plate 1 and the motor M isstart- The coins are worked by hand across charge gap or mouth 0 formed between the block E and the'adjacent end of the wall V (Fig. 1.), the nickels or five-cent pieces re Imainin-g on'the plate, and as they come opposite the gap 6 they are pushed into the mechanical counter R (well understood in the art). The quarters and halves (which are in the minority) are plcked out and deposited into their respective receptacles or boxes 16, 17. dirt drop through the openings 0 onto the The dimes and pennies and traveling beltconveyer (toward which they are directed on the sides by the ledges 9) and, as the conveyor advances, they are automatically precipitated over the wall w into the chute 11, sliding down the sloping bottom 71, thereof onto the extension h where the dirt, and foreign matter drops through the openings 0 into the drawer 13, the coins being however intercepted. hat pennies may be mixed with the dimes are picked out by hand and thrown into the chute 1% which delivers them into the drawer 13. The dimes are then pushed by hand through the gap 6 into the counting machine R attached to the bracket 12. Any mutilated tickets are picked out both from the coins on the table 1 and in the chute 11 and thrown into the receptacle 19 through the opening A, Should the motor M at any time be out of commission, rotation may be imparted to the roller 3 (and hence movement to the belt-conveyor) by the crank-handle H. The main object of the present machine is to automatically separate dimes and pennies, from nickels, quarters and halves. The dimes-and nickels predominating, it follows that the quarters and halves may be readily picked out of the nickels by hand, and the pennies picked by hand out of the dimes. The coins of the larger denomination (25, 50) may be counted by hand, as well as the pennies,.the dimes and nickels requiring mechanical counters R, R, by reason of their great bulk. A machine of the character here described has a' maximum capacity, the several hundred openings 0 in the plate almost instantly discharging the dimes and pennies onto the belt 2 the moment the charge is dumped onto the table 1. In the drawings, the nickels are represented by the reference letter G, and the dimes and pennies by G.

The invention is obviously not restricted in its application to coins of the specific denominations alluded. to, but is to be understood as applicable to coins of any denomination or diameter, or to other material, whether money or not, capable of being sorted. v

Though termed a sorting machine, because it separates coins of diiierent denominations from one another, it is inherently a sizing machine, because separating the dif ferent sizes of disks from one another.

Having described my invention, what I cla1m-1s:

1. In a money sorting machine, a perto operating to intercept said coins and direct their discharge across the general direction of movement of the traveling member and allow'the dirt and foreign material to p ass therethrough.

2. In a money-sorting machine, a station ary depositing table for the coins, perto rated to discharge coms of certain denom1-- nations and intercept coins of other denominations, a discharge for the intercepted coins leading from said table, a conveyer below the table for intercepting the coins discharged through the table perforations, 40

and for conducting thesame to a suitable point of discharge, a transversely disposed chute positioned beyond the table for receiving the coins discharged from the conveyor, a perforated plate at the base of the chute operating to intercept the coin delivered thereto but allowing dirt and foreign matter to pass therethrough, and means on said plate for effecting a discharge of the coin intercepted thereby.

3. In amoney sorting machine, a stationary depositing table for the coins, periorated to discharge coins of certain denominations and intercept coins of other denominations, a discharge for the intercepted coins leading from said table, a belt-conveyer be.

low the table for intercepting the coins discharged through the perforations of the table, a chute located at the discharge end of the conveyerbeyond the end of thetable and inclined transversely to the general direction of travel of the belt, an extension leading from the inclined portion of the on saidextension may be discarded;

chute and provided with perforations for on the escape of dirt and foreign substances, and having a marginaldischarge for the coins, .and a chute leading from said exten sion and extending a suitable distance? above the upper surface of the, same through which aportlon of the coins accumulating In a money sorting machine, a station-j arydepositing table for the coins, perfo rated to dis-charge coins of certain denominations and intercept coins of other'denomination's, a discharge for the intercepted coins, leadlng from said table, an endless belt-Conveyer below the table, for, 1ntercept rations of the table, ledges disposed longitudinally of and at the sides and above the belt and having faces inclining" toward the" .ing the coins discharged through theperi obelt for guiding the coins onto the beltpa' chute at the discharge endiof the belt be-" yond the table having awall for guiding the a 1 coin thereinto and abottom inclined transverselyio the general direction of travel of from, said inclined bot-tom and provided with a marginal discharge for the coins, a receptacle below said extension, a chute leadingfrom the extension to the receptacle for conveying discarded coins'to the receptacle,

the belt a aerforated extensionjleadin i v s 7 i b a motor in the Ispace'beneath the inclined" bottom of the chute' faforesaid, rollers for I the belt, and intermediate connections between the motor andthe adj acent, roller for imparting movementtothe belt, I

5. In a money; sorting machine,a suitable frame, a top perforated plate for theedeposit of coin, an endless belt conveyer beneath the plate,means on the side ofthe conveyer for guiding the coins dropping through the perforations, onto the plate, terminal guide rollers for the belt, a chute beyond the perforated plate having an;in-

clined bottom atthe discharge end of the conveyer disposed transversely to the general direction of travel of the belt and receiving the discharges from the belt, a motor positioned below said inclined bottom within the'bounding planes of the frame, a counter-shaft actuated by the motor, a

sprocket wheel, on said shaft, a terminalsproclret on the "roller adjacent the motor, and a sprocket chain connecting the sprockets whereby 'mo'vement 1s lmparted' to the belt. I

In testimony whereof I afix my signa ,ture, in presence of two witnesses.

i raa'rru WALSH, JR. Witnesses: I i I EMIL STAREK,

Jos. A. MJGHEL.

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